The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

that they may from an inwrought principle eschew the evil, and do the good.¹ Else they may too soon prove like the Hares in Aelian, that by leaping this way and that way, when they come nigh their muse, do [[Greek or Hebrew]] confound their footsteps to prevent discovery, If thou suffer child, or a young servant to go on in sin unregarded, untaught, unchid, and think 'tis too little to mind at first; that sinful folly will be thy scourge in the end. God many times whips an aged Parent by that child, which was unwhipped at first.² Adonis•h had well nigh broken the design of David about Solomons being set in the Throne; whom his Father had never displeased by saying, why hast thou done so? that is, never checked him for his faults. The means to take away the root, and foundation of evil customs and habits,³ is to fall a weeding, in the spring of thy child's Life [Aegre reprehendas quod sinis consuescere.] Reproofs will go down untowardly, when children come once to their teens, when their years come up to double numbers.

that they may from an inwrought principle eschew the evil, and do the good.¹ Else they may too soon prove like the Hares in Aelian, that by leaping this way and that way, when they come nigh their muse, do [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] confound their footsteps to prevent discovery, If thou suffer childe, or a young servant to go on in sin unregarded, untaught, unchid, and think 'tis too little to minde at first; that sinful folly will be thy scourge in the end. God many times whips an aged Parent by that childe, which was unwhipt at first.² Adonis•h had well nigh broken the design of David about Solomons being set in the Throne; whom his Father had never displeased by saying, why hast thou done so? that is, never checkt him for his faults. The means to take away the root, and foundation of evil customes and habits,